"There were some women cadre also in the Maoist contingent that attacked the train on Thursday," Additional Director General of Police (ADG), Law and Order S K Bhardwaj told PTI.
Tension gripped Shivpuri town on Monday as police fired in air to disperse a mob that went berserk after word spread about the body of an abducted boy lying in nearby Amola forest, police said.
Water level in the Mullaperiyar dam is threatening to cross the permissible limit of 142 feet, leading to fears about the safety of the people living downstream from it in Kerala even as six spillway shutters were opened on Monday night to release excess water.
In a major setback to the Naxalite movement in Andhra Pradesh, top Maoist leader Sudarshan, who carried a reward of Rs 3 lakh on his head, was killed, along with two others, in an encounter with the police.
Goswami not only killed two terrorists, but also assisted in neutralising the other two and save the lives of three of his wounded colleagues.
Another rhino was killed by poachers at Kaziranga National Park in Assam on Saturday with the toll rising to seven at the UNESCO World Heritage site.
Five militants were killed in two separate encounters in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Wednesday.
This is the fourth IED blast triggered by Naxals in Chhattisgarh in the last 15 days.
A Maoist camp was busted and a cache of ammunition and explosive material recovered from the forests of Katulbharora in Chhattisgarh, police said on Friday.
Two Central Reserve Police Force jawans and as many Maoists were killed and nine other securitymen injured in an encounter between the two sides in Balthar forests in Bihar's Maoist-hit Gaya district, a police official said on Monday.
A youth died in clashes between stone-pelters and security personnel near the encounter site.
Two fire officials were seriously injured while trying to contain the blaze which broke out around 1.45 am.
'Patience, hard work and perseverance are the three simple things that one needs to pass in the UPSC exam or for that matter any exam.'
A Central Reserve Police Force jawan of the specialised COBRA unit was killed and a Deputy Commandant injured in a fierce encounter with Maoists at Chiklam village in Jharkhand's Naxal-hit Ghatsila sub-division on Wednesday.
Two BJP activists were injured in skirmishes with the police as demonstrators burnt tyres and torched effigies of the governor, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Peoples Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the police said.
The security forces did not suffer any casualty in the encounter.
'Naxals, when they encountered our commandos on Sunday morning, fired first.' 'We gave them warnings to surrender, but they continued firing.' 'Ultimately, our commandos responded in self-defence and that resulted in the death of 37 Naxals.'
Altogether 13 Maoist ultras including a woman were killed in an encounter with security forces inside a forest in Malkangiri district early on Saturday while another rebel was captured. The Maoist group that camped there was suspected to have been involved in the May 25 attack on a Congress convoy in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh that killed senior party leaders V C Shukla, Mahendra Karma and about 19 others.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films, most of them shown at international film festivals held virtually (Berlinale and Rotterdam), hybrid (Toronto) or physical (Cannes and Venice).
Responding to a question on the issue of felling trees in Mumbai's Aarey forest, in which the Supreme Court has restrained authorities from cutting anymore trees, Javadekar told the reporters that he would not like to comment on a sub judice matter.
Gun-totting Maoists shot dead a contractor and former tribal village head in Mudulipada area of Odisha's Malkangiri district on Saturday, suspecting him to be a police informer, said the police. The victim, identified as Budra Dhangda Majhi, had gone to the market at Khairput, nearly 70 km from Malkangiri, when three ultras fired at him, Inspector In-Charge of Mudulipada police station Rajesh Chatria said.
Two 'foreign' militants were killed in a daylong encounter in Chattergul village of north Kashmir's Ganderbal district on Sunday.
A soldier of the counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles was killed in an ongoing encounter with militants in the Khaimal forest area in North Kashmir's Kupwara district on Wednesday afternoon.
Three cops of the Jammu and Kashmir police and three terrorists were killed in an ongoing north Kashmir gunfight on Tuesday.
Two top terrorists of Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) were on Sunday gunned down by security forces in a fierce gun-battle in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.
A joint team of the Border Security Force and the Chhattisgarh police on Friday busted a bomb-making unit of the banned Communist Party of India - Maoist and seized around 300 kg of explosives and equipment used for assembling IEDs. A joint team of the BSF, Special Task Force and Kanker district police raided a Maoist hideout in the forest between Beenagunda and Uchhekoti villages in Abuzamad area, where they came under hostile fire, said Kanker district police chief.
'There is a mafia operating in that area that lends money to these labourers. Loans are paid off with red sandalwood. The actual smugglers don't need to come to the area.'
The STF team came under attack from the gang on Sunday night when they were returning after an encounter.
Three militants were killed in two encounters in Kupwara district of Kashmir, officials said on Thursday.
'He destroyed many of our tanks, and finally, it was just the two of us left facing each other with our tanks just 200 m apart.' A tale of valour excerpted from Rachna Bisht Rawat's 1971: Charge Of The Gorkhas And Other Stories.
A junior commissioned officer and two militants were killed in a fierce gunfight at Garoora, a forest hamlet in north Kashmir's Bandipore district, early on Thursday morning.
Leader of Krishak Mukti Sanram Samity and a Right To Information activist Akhil Gogi was arrested on Friday afternoon from Guwahati Press Club while addressing a press conference on charges of 'instigating' violence on the streets near the Assam's capital complex in Dispur on June 22 during a mass agitation against drive to evict illegal settlers from forest land, wetlands and hills in and around Guwahati city.
A Border Security Force jawan was killed in a Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, the third strike by the ultras since Saturday in the state.
The chain of explosions also blew off the whole building where a group of workers were sieving ammunition powder.
A suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant was on Wednesday killed in an encounter with security forces in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, police said.
Spread over 728,000 acres, the wildfires have become one of the worst disasters ever to strike California.
An ecological disaster is in the making in the Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest spanning across the Indo-Bangla border, after an oil tanker collided with an empty cargo vessel. The incident spilled nearly 350 tonnes of oil into the Sela river, threatening the survival of multiple species of flora and fauna.
The DD scribe, Dhiraj Kumar said the horrific incident would never fade from his memory.
Three army troopers and a militant were killed and a trooper wounded when security forces foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control in the Tangdhar sector of north Kashmir Kupwara district.
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